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Direct linkImai, Mutsumi; Haryu, Etsuko; Okada, Hiroyuki – Child Development, 2005
The present research examined how 3- and 5-year-old Japanese children map novel nouns and verbs onto dynamic action events and generalize them to new instances. Studies 1 to 3 demonstrated that although both 3- and 5-year-olds were able to map novel nouns onto novel objects, only 5-year-olds could generalize verbs solely on the basis of the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Preschool Children
